July 1958: ‘eterna - . jp? 7 . The construction preparation for Millrace as of this time are completion of three 500 foot 36" holes with towers over 2 of the holes and sisnal lines to be completed by 1 Sept. All stations “will be in readiness arc eoitreetor's Support availacle for field operations by Sept. 15." In this revort is the first mention of operation framet cfcve “t sevs the construction effort on the LASL tunnel has been vermorary haulted pending results of an AEC-LASL-USGS conference on 1 August to discuss Planning. lonz term usage Discussions have been going on with UCPL personnel to learn from their tunnel experience and the techniques that they heve developed and are wrking on. - LH Al July message from Ogle at LASL to Graves at Eniwetok includes, among other err ‘ things, the plans for the LASL participation in Millrace which are 3 safety shots and 2 tunnel shots. Note that there is plenty of discussion as to what the organization at Nevada to control the Millrace series would be, with tentative agreement at this time that Reeves will be overall director with LASL and Livermore scientific advisors and some discussion that the Livermore man will be called the senior advisor. , ' Through the first third of July, the rumors at Eniwetok as to the possible shots to be done on Millrace and the possible cutoff dates and moratorium and other such things were plentiful. One of the conflicts of information was that LASL was proceeding with 2 tunnels for 15 kiloton shots which were planned for completion in Dec. whereas other information said that there could be no use of these tunnels before March of 59. Information from Bob Watt on 11 July indicates that plans are for the tunnels design to be reasonably firm in the first half of Aug. and for completion of the tunnels about 1 Dec. |